FROME’S Black Swan Arts will be taking part in BBC’s nationwide Get Creative event on Saturday 8th April from 2pm to 4pm, alongside ‘The Future Can’t Wait’, an exciting show of exhibits from 30 MA postgraduate students across four disciplines – ceramics, fashion and textiles, fine art and visual communication.
Five artisans who hold studios at the centre will be offering drop-in taster workshops for adults and children. Jewellers, Linda and Yasemin of Studio 2 will be offering free interactive jewellery-making demonstrations where all ages from eight years to adults will have a chance to have a go at cutting and texturing metal, forming silver wire into intricate patterns and adding gold touches (keum boo) to sterling silver.
Lila Streether will be in Studio 1 painting flowers and fruit. Visitors will be welcome to have a go at doing a small painting.
Jack Perkins will be demonstrating an illustration technique using fine liners and watercolour washes to bring instant flair and colour to your ink drawings and will be encouraging you to have a try.
In Suzi Waterworth’s ‘Porcelain bead painting taster-workshop’ she will demonstrate how an unglazed porcelain bead can be decorated, and participants can have a go, using basic acrylic paints (suitable for age 10+).
Also for ‘Get Creative’ from 2-4pm, there will be free drop-in workshops in the Long Gallery as part of Black Swan’s exhibition ‘The Future Can’t Wait’, which runs to 15th April.
The exhibition showcases emerging artists from Bath Spa University. Curated by two students on the MA Curatorial Practice course.
For their debut in Frome, MA artists invite children to explore the exhibition that introduces art from a range of disciplines. Artists will offer unique creative activities and sensory experiences for the children to make and be inspired, including origami, textured collages or mini sculptures.
Children will be encouraged to look, touch, participate, have conversations with MA artists, explore their ideas and be part of the exhibition. The children’s creations will be exhibited online as the exhibition progresses – a chance to collaborate and expand the show together.
Local school children will be involved in workshops in the last week of March. Throughout the exhibition there will be free ongoing activities to stimulate children’s creative responses.
On Saturday 8th April, from 2pm to 4pm Somerset Skills & Learning will also be offering the opportunity to get creative outside.
For more information visit www.blackswan.org.uk To follow Black Swan Arts’ Get Creative projects, visit twitter #GetCreative and visit BBC get-creative-weekend.
